The Samsung Galaxy Watch 7 offers an extensive range of specific sports modes designed to cover a wide variety of physical activities and workouts. Users can access these modes to accurately track their performance, heart rate, calories burned, GPS routes (where applicable), and other fitness metrics during each workout session. The Galaxy Watch 7 supports a total of 102 different sport and exercise modes, making it very versatile for athletes, fitness enthusiasts, or casual users looking to monitor their activity.
Among the popular and commonly used sport modes are running, walking, swimming, cycling, and strength training. These core modes come with detailed tracking features such as GPS for outdoor routes, real-time heart rate monitoring, pace, distance, and calorie count. There is also support for treadmills and indoor cycling, which are crucial for indoor workout tracking.
Beyond these, there is a broad array of exercises covered across different categories including but not limited to circuit training, yoga, rowing, elliptical, hiking, and even more specialized workouts like pilates or various forms of dance and martial arts. The watch allows users to customize workouts by creating new exercise profiles where specific data such as duration, calories, GPS tracking, sets, and rest periods can be specified. This customization helps tailor the workout experience to individual preferences and training goals.
The Galaxy Watch 7 also includes automatic detection for common workouts such as walking, running, and swimming. This feature automatically starts recording the activity when it detects movement associated with those exercises, helping users keep track without manual input.
One notable feature is the ability to set goals for each workout session, such as specific durations, distances, or calories to burn. For runners, there is a "race" feature where the watch creates a virtual ghost competitor based on past performance, providing added motivation and a competitive edge during runs.
Users can also customize the data fields shown on the watch face during workouts, with up to seven fields available at once for each sport mode. These fields can include metrics like heart rate (current, average, or max), pace, steps, altitude, and lap statistics, offering comprehensive real-time feedback.
For triathletes or users who want to perform multisport workouts, the Galaxy Watch 7 does not have a built-in dedicated multisport mode like the Galaxy Watch Ultra, but it allows the user to manually create a routine combining running, cycling, and swimming sequentially and label it as a custom workout such as "Triathlon."
Other advanced training and health insights on the Galaxy Watch 7 include heart rate zone calculations based on maximum heart rate, auto-pause during workouts when the user stops moving (e.g., at traffic lights), and audio feedback during training sessions.
The watch further tracks important recovery and readiness metrics using an Energy Score, which summarizes the user's anticipated physical readiness for the day based on previous activities and sleep quality. This feature encourages users to optimize their training load and recovery.
Here is a summary of specific features and modes available on the Galaxy Watch 7:
- Total of 102 sports and exercise modes including running, cycling, swimming, walking, strength training, yoga, pilates, dance, circuit training, rowing, and many others.
- Custom workout creation with options for tracking duration, calories, GPS route, sets, and rests.
- Auto-detection of common workouts such as walking, running, and swimming.
- GPS tracking with dual-frequency GNSS for improved positional accuracy.
- Workout goal setting for duration, distance, or calories burned.
- Virtual âraceâ mode for running against a ghost competitor.
- Customizable workout screen with up to 7 different data fields displayed simultaneously.
- Auto-pause functionality to stop tracking when inactivity is detected.
- Heart rate zone tracking based on maximum heart rate.
- Multi-sport workout setup (manual) to combine activities like running, cycling, and swimming.
- Energy Score to assess physical readiness based on recent activity and sleep.
- Audio feedback and coaching during workouts.